William W. Sullivan (CAEO) and Esther Langston (Social Work and CAEO) will be inducted in Historical Westside Legacy Park on Dec. 4 at 10 a.m. Langston and Sullivan are educational and community pioneers. The park will include plaques with historic information on those people honored there. The…
Susan Byrne (World Languages and Cultures) has published "Cervantes y el Derecho: Préstamos RecÃprocos" in Admiración del mundo: Actas selectas del XIV Coloquio Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas. In the article, first offered as a plenary talk in Venice, Italy, in 2019, …
Mark Carroll and Lauren Layton (both Education) were featured in a Las Vegas Review-Journal story about recent initiatives to address teacher shortages in Southern Nevada.
Cory Lampert (Libraries) is the co-author of a chapter, "Maximizing Good: An Inquiry-Based Approach to Minimal Description for Online Archives," in the recently published book, The Lighting the Way Handbook: Case Studies, Guidelines, and Emergent Futures for Archival…
Erick B. López, Amanda Haboush-Deloye (both Nevada Institute for Children's Research and Policy), and Erika Marquez (Environmental and Occupational Health) published their research, "The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 in Minority Communities," in the Nevada Journal of Public Health.
Barbara Roth (Anthropology) published a book chapter, "Changes in Household Organization and the Development of Classic Period Mimbres Pueblos," in Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change, edited by Lacey Carpenter and Anna Prentiss, Routledge Press (November 2021).
Aidy Weeks (Libraries) is the author of an article, "Proving the Proverbial Gadfly: Situating the Historical and Racial Context of Southern Medical Works by Mary Louise Marshall" in the November issues of the Journal of the Medical Library Association. The article critically re-…
Gabriela Buccini (Social and Behavioral Health) presented at the 11th Brazilian Congress of Epidemiology Nov. 25.
Her presentation was part of the panel to discuss the 2030 Agenda for Child Health and Nutrition challenges. Buccini's session was titled "Monitoring the indicators of the…
Angela Amar (Nursing) was one of the featured speakers at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Diversity Symposium.
The virtual November event focuses on advanced diversity and building more inclusive learning environments to help address health care inequities.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) has been selected as an inaugural Philosophy in the Media Fellow with the Marc Sanders Foundation, through which she will focus on long-form magazine article writing.
The MSF Philosophy in Media initiative aims to increase the presence of philosophy in print,…
Melissa Marshall, Selam Ayele, Casey Barber, Erin Sheehy, Daidre Gamboa, and Shawn Gerstenberger (all Public Health) published an article on "The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development BUILD Las Vegas 2019 Event: Lessons learned in public health community engagement" in the Journal of…
Dr. Tina Brandon Abbatangelo (Dental) accepted an invitation by the American Dental Association to speak at its annual meeting during the first SmileCon event.
Modeled after the popular TED Talks, SmileCon featured three speakers who shared insight from their lives and careers. Brandon…